Yale co-Hosting 2012 NCAA East Regional

Jun 28, 2010

Yale, Fairfield to Partner on 3rd NCAA Championships
Event

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The NCAA announced
today that Fairfield and Yale will host the 2012 NCAA Men's
Hockey East Regional at Bridgeport's Arena at Harbor Yard,
the third such event awarded to the two Connecticut Division I
Universities. The Stags and Bulldogs co-hosted the first time with
the 2009 East Regional at Harbor Yard and will host again at The
Arena in 2011.

Yale, Michigan, Air Force and eventual champion Vermont competed
in the 2009 regional that drew a Harbor Yard record 8,478 fans on
both nights. The Bulldogs, who lost to the Frozen Four bound
Catamounts, returned to the 2010 NCAA Northeast Regional at
Worcester, Mass., and beat North Dakota before falling to eventual
national champion Boston College.

Fairfield and Yale had plenty of NCAA hosting experience before
partnering in 2009. The Stags have hosted the NCAA Division I
Women's Basketball Championship on three occasions at Harbor
Yard, including the Bridgeport Regional in 2006.

Yale, co-hosts with the ECAC for the 2004 NCAA Women's
Frozen Four at Providence, has also run NCAA championships for
baseball, fencing, volleyball, men's golf, men's and
women's soccer and men's and women's lacrosse.

The 2012 East Regional will be played on March 23-24, with each
of the four participating teams having an open practice on March
22. The regional winner earns a trip to the Frozen Four at
the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla.

The NCAA also awarded 2012 men's hockey regionals to the
University of Minnesota (West), Michigan Tech (Midwest) and Holy
Cross (Northeast).